what did she do before w? how did she get to w? when did she start styling?...that kind of stuff.

here is an excerpt from Stylist,The Interpreters of Fashion

A child of the 80s,whose 1st fashion memory is reading pop magazine FAB 208 after having her tonsils removed,White broke into styling through an internship at British Elle, and through booking models, photographers, and everything else while running Kim Knott's photography studio.She later graduated from booking models at Harper's & Queen to the magazine's fashion department.Come early 90s, White joined the influx of British fashion stylists moving to upper echelons of New York magazines.
During the late 90s White's eye for childlike chic emerged, too, in her work behind scenes at Prada and Burberry.
White was appointed fashion director of W in 2003, but she has been contributing fashion editor since W's chairman and editorial director, Dennis Freedman, transformed the magazine in 1993 by introducing new glossy format,an editorial policy that set the magazine on course as a high-level fashion influencer.

^agree!she is the best stylist in the states imo
and here is the prada project she did from wallpaper.com via tfs memeber h.n.

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The Iconoclasts by Prada

Opening in conjunction with each of the four major international fashion weeks, Prada's Iconoclast Project will see four heavyweights from the world of fashion styling making their mark on four flagship Prada stores around the world.
Commencing proceedings is Alex White of W magazine, who has left the Broadway store in New York with a lasting taste of her artistic vision. While still to come is Katie Grand transforming the London store, Olivier Rizzo waving his wand over the Milan store, and Carine Roitfeld putting her touches to the Paris store.

The Iconoclast project is, in the words of the people at Prada, a chance to highlight ‘the importance of interacting within the world of fashion at the highest and most creative level’.

White has transformed the stateside store into a sporadic world of colour-bound mannequins, dotted and herded around the yawning space.
Slouchy, Mini-Mouse-eared models take centre stage in the window display, whilst disembodied legs clad in reptile-print tights and towering heels grow uniformly out of walls. Blindfolded, purse-lipped figures huddle together in a display of the whites, creams and pastels from the collection and teetering piles of sky-high stilettos dot the shop floor, as if discarded.

Finally, I want to share something I received yesterday from the stylist Alex White of W. I’d asked her to tell me what inspired her about the collections. Well, I loved her insight and enthusiasm. Here’s a snippet from her email: “I am going to start off this season with a collections story. Resisting the restyling and sometimes fantasy story to really illustrate what ended up being a lot of great, wearable clothes…I agree about the tailored, modern clothes—I was tempted by the clothes that are fitted and structured, using classic fabrics with a new treatment, like at Prada and Lanvin.” She noted the outdoors element at Prada, Burberry and Comme des Garçons: “I thought of Bruce Weber and spending a wonderful week shooting in the English countryside.” And Dries Van Noten made Alex think of the photographs of Louise Dahl-Wolfe. It’s always interesting what other people see and understand in clothes.